A young boy goes missing.
No clues. Nothing except the remnants of a black cloud, like the one coughed up from inside the Doorway of Darkness. A black cloud that takes Axiom-man to a world not his own. A dead world, where a gray and brown sky shrouds an entire city in a miasma of decay.
The streets are empty. The young boy is nowhere to be found. Those he does find . . . are dead.
And walking.

A man on a business trip to Japan, a pandemic, and a dying world. A viral disease wipes away all of humanity, and Alan discovers that he is the sole survivor. Accompanied by two stray dogs he sets out on a journey to Berlin, straight across Asia and 10,000 miles of hardship.

A collection of eight short stories from best-selling author Scott Nicholson, including two stories from "The Best of All Flesh" series. Bonus material includes stories from Joe McKinney (Dead World) and Jack Kilborn (Endurance) and a "Zombie Apocalypse Survival Scorecard" from Jonathan Maberry (Patient Zero), as well as a bonus script from the Murdermouth comic.

In a post-apocalyptic world, ravaged by war, Talaith and Kaherdin meet–at opposite sides of the battlefield. Her people possess the magic that could save his people's lives. And his shapeshifter pack is not afraid to kill for the elixir which has been withheld for so long. As their world erupts in battle they must find a way to bring unite their people before both sides are destroyed.

If you suddenly feel an enormous weight pressing down on you, it’s probably too late. Your Umph is already inside an alien’s body. This should not scare you…
“Absolutely brilliant! …a real classic, which leaves the reader wondering if we do really live on Planet Earth!” Louisa Middleton-Blake, author, Wales, UK.
The other stories are about the love of life and the planet Earth.

A thousand years after the world is destroyed by nuclear war, a U.S. government operation called the Shield of Life flourishes underground under the tyrannical rule of the Head Council. Mary of Generation 43's journey to uncover the events of the dark past, details of the daunting present, and promises of an unknown future lead her to find love, witness death, and remarkably, discover herself.

“There was nothing human about the scream. In near total darkness, where even the stars had forsaken their shimmering sheen, within the hot breath of the steaming, churning volcanic hot springs, Astrid could only imagine the alien features contracted in a spasm of agony. Pain is pain by any other name. It hurts as much, no matter what the species. A shriek, a short silence, a protracted whimper,

There has been no rain for two hundred years. Nasan Rattlingbones has been exiled from her clan and left to fend for herself in the waste. She discovers she may be at the heart of a heavenly conspiracy involving the curse on her world.

Angels. Demons. Giant zombies.
The zombie threat has evolved to gargantuan proportions. Now aided by giant undead—massive monsters with phenomenal strength and power, with deadly appetites just as vast—the zombie population moves to devour any and all life.
A war is raging, one between angels and demons, monsters and man.
And it’s only escalating.

A short story that follows Santa Claus as he prepares for and makes deliveries on a dark, post-apocalyptic Christmas Eve. At first Santa doesn't know precisely what's been going on all year, but slowly the pieces begin to come together to form a picture of what remains of the world. Find out whether a little Christmas magic will be enough to bring holiday cheer to a world on its last legs.